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«All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.»
Author: Anna Jameson
(Essayist)
| About:
Experience,
Learning,
Questioning
| Keywords:
cases, generous, just in case, merciful, ninety, Ninety nine, teaches
«Hard cases, it is said, make bad law»
Author: John Campbell Argyll
| Keywords:
cases
«If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.»
«For a large class of cases -- though not for all -- in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.»
«Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.»
«Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.»
«In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Affection
| Keywords:
affection, cases, had better, nine
«Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Fortune
| Keywords:
cases, fortune, Good Neighbors, knocks, neighboring, saloon, saloons, The Good Neighbor
«All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Civil rights,
Democracy,
Freedom
| Keywords:
all too, bear in mind, cases, Equal rights, majority, minority, prevail, principle, protect, reasonable, rightful, sacred
«Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
cases, consequences, ignore, outer, pay attention, responsible, responsible for
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